Established in 1968, the National Christian College Athletic Association’s mission is to keep Christ at the center of intercollegiate athletics. The NCCAA currently holds 23 national championship events and one national invitational. Within its membership, the NCCAA boasts 41 dually affiliated members of the NAIA and NCAA. Learn more and see if dual membership is a fit for your institution here, or email Brandon Gilmore, Director of Membership, at bgilmore@thenccaa.org.

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KCAC Commissioner Brandon Buchanan joins This Week in the KCAC to talk about a number of topics, including his first six months leading the league. “We knew we didn’t have to reinvent the wheel. … This conference has been very successful for a long time. With that said, I just wanted to provide stability, consistency and genuine care initially and then get us back to structure, building momentum to adapt to the modern, changing climate of college athletics.” Looking ahead, Buchanan: “The ultimate goal, as you know, is that all we try to do is increase student-athletes’ experiences, but also increase the institution’s value in the end, so if [the KCAC] is helping better recruiting, more retention, and more satisfaction for our student-athletes, that’s helping our institutions and that’s all we want to do and that’s all we want to try to contribute to every day. There’s a lot of collaboration to be had still to drive us forward. We need to invest. We need to take those calculated risks where we can. We need to be open to new initiatives. It’s easy for a conference this historic and this old to get kind of stuck in our ways sometimes, but we have so many open and willing to try new things – ADs, SIDs, FARs, presidents, they’re all willing to invest and that’s so key for us.” More. (link)

More from HBCUAC Commissioner Kiki Baker Barnes’ Small College Conversation on the importance of moving more conference championships to neutral sites, which is a key part of the league’s business development plan. “The only assets that the conference owns are its championships and so those assets have to generate income and revenue for the conference. It helps keep our conference dues at a level that is comfortable for our members. … So we have partnered with four different convention and visitors bureaus who have won the bid for our championships and it's just been a very, very, very productive partnership where we are helping from an economic standpoint for those cities that we're going to but also giving us needed resources to give a great experience for our student-athletes because that's important. We talk about how important student experience is. Well, you have to have money to do that.” Full conversation on BOSCA. (link, link)

Saint Mary (KS) promotes OC Taylor Calvert to Football HC. (link)

Coaches.wire…
➤ Bluefield State names Bob Jones (NCCAA) AC Ryan McCarty as its new Men’s Soccer HC. (link)
➤ Georgia Gwinnett Baseball HC Jeremy Sheetinger departs to become the Washington Nationals’ minor league training complex coordinator. (link)
➤ Football plus 15 other sports had coaching staff changes over the past week. Check them all out in this morning’s edition of Coaches.wire. (link)

Puck’s Dylan Byers surveys 173 C-suite and executive media insiders on the future of the industry and highlights a decisive pivot toward audience revenue as the primary driver over the next five years. Specifically, 34% of respondents expect subscriptions/memberships to eclipse advertising (27%) as their biggest revenue stream, with nearly half (43%) favoring "focused niche" strategies over the "one big product" flagship model. Other key findings include: 

➤ ESPN’s Future: The industry is split on ESPN, with one-third predicting joint ventures will define its next chapter, while equal shares (24% each) bet on either the resilience of linear carriage or the rise of a flagship DTC product.

➤ Video/Streaming Dominance: 40% identify video/streaming as the biggest growth area in advertising, far outpacing contextual targeting (31%) and podcasts (7%).

➤ The End of Social Distribution: Only 17% expect social platforms to be their strongest audience relationship in five years, compared to 53% for owned-and-operated platforms.

➤ Warner Bros. Discovery Skepticism: 45% view David Ellison's pursuit of Warner Bros. Discovery as logical consolidation, but 36% fear it's a "risky overreach" given debt loads and streaming uncertainty.

➤ AI Anxiety: Respondents overwhelmingly cited "diminished content quality" (39%) and "misinformation risks" (33%) as their top concerns regarding AI's impact, with one insider predicting "A.I. experiments will flop and disintegrate into A.I. slop." More. (link)